Is Timor-Leste helping Russia or Ukraine? The net is essentially zero
Timor-Leste's support for Ukraine since 2022: €1m (0.06% of one year's GDP: its aid, refugee hosting, private donations and its other parts of support, net of money flowing back). Russia kept <€1m (<0.01% of GDP) less than without the war, mostly less paid for Russian services (<€1m; the other parts take <€1m off it). The net is 0.07% of a year's GDP toward Ukraine (likely 0.06% to 0.08% toward Ukraine; essentially zero).
Supported Ukraine + cut Russia's earnings from trade = 0.07% of GDP toward Ukraine. Mostly support for Ukraine.
Chance toward Ukraine: >99%; 100% of the other method choices agree.
Support for Ukraine
Supported Ukraine with
0.06%
€1m
likely 0.06% to 0.07% essentially zero
Russia's earnings from trade
Cut Russia's earnings from trade by
<0.01%
<€1m
likely from <0.01% toward Russia to 0.02% toward Ukraine essentially zero
Russia kept <€1m (<0.01% of GDP) less than without the war, mostly less paid for Russian services (<€1m; the other parts take <€1m off it).
Its story in short
Small economy A small economy (GDP €2.2bn): small sums move its % a lot. Not ranked, and drawn in the lightest shade only.
Two different things added The net adds two different things: help given to Ukraine and the change in what Russia kept from trade. Much of what one country stopped buying, Russia sold to others.
What decides this number
Chance toward Ukraine: >99%; 100% of the other method choices agree. Not certain, mostly because of the uncertain size of one part: Russia kept less from services sold here. Here the size of the net is the finding, not its direction: likely 0.06% to 0.08% toward Ukraine.
What makes up the number
Supported Ukraine with 0.06% · €1m
Aid: weapons, money, loansB
+0.06%
€1m
Cut Russia's earnings from trade by <0.01% · <€1m
+ toward Ukraine, − toward Russia (in support for Ukraine, − is money it earned back or bought less from Ukraine than without the war). Letters: A reported, B measured estimate, C modelled estimate, D rough indication.
By year
The one year with a net amount of note was 2022: +€1m.
It bought <€1m from Russia in 2021 and €0m in 2025. It sold <€1m to Russia in 2021 and €0m in 2025. For Timor-Leste: €0 paid below no-war prices, most of it in 2022, 71% of it on gas contracts. These are sales values at each year's prices; the totals count what the seller kept on them.
Sanctions on Russia
We found no sanctions of Timor-Leste's own against Russia (checked 27 October 2026). This says nothing about whether firms there follow other countries' sanctions. Russia's list of “unfriendly” states does not name Timor-Leste. Checked 27 October 2026.
1 sources back its parts: 1 official statistics, 0 research reports, 0 press reports and 0 of this project's own estimates. By size, 100% of its parts are reported or measured (A–B), 0% modelled (C) and 0% rough indications (D). No data: Sales to Russia. There is no observation of its own for the war years, so these count as zero. Why
Data coverage
Aid to Ukraine: estimated UN FTS and government reports
Private donations: missing no data and no estimate; counted as zero
Services trade with Russia: estimated Eurostat, OECD-WTO and Bank of Russia data
Refugee hosting: reported no refugees from Ukraine recorded
Bought from Russia: estimated partly filled: imf, reported
Sold to Russia: estimated partly filled: estimated, mirror
Bought from Ukraine: estimated partly filled: imf, mirror, reported
Sold to Ukraine: estimated partly filled: estimated, mirror
Energy switching cost: estimated modelled per fuel and month
Company taxes in Russia: reported no companies operating in Russia found
Its net is essentially zero: +0.07% of one year's GDP (likely 0.06% to 0.08% toward Ukraine). Not certain, mostly because of the uncertain size of one part: Russia kept less from services sold here.
Is Timor-Leste helping Russia?
In money terms the net is +0.07% of one year's GDP (likely 0.06% to 0.08% toward Ukraine; essentially zero). Chance toward Ukraine: >99%; 100% of the other method choices agree. Russia kept <€1m (<0.01% of GDP) less than without the war, mostly less paid for Russian services (<€1m; the other parts take <€1m off it). The number counts money: weapons at their money value; votes, diplomacy and intent are not in it.
How much has Timor-Leste given to Ukraine?
Timor-Leste's support for Ukraine from 2022 to August 2026: €1m, 0.06% of one year's GDP (likely 0.06% to 0.07%). It counts its aid (weapons at market value when delivered, loans at their gift value), its share of IMF and World Bank lending, the cost of hosting refugees, private donations, an estimate of undisclosed military aid and purchases from Ukraine against the no-war level, net of money flowing back.
We found no sanctions of Timor-Leste's own against Russia (checked 27 October 2026). This says nothing about whether firms there follow other countries' sanctions. Russia's list of “unfriendly” states does not name Timor-Leste.